Knights of Columbus Building, 202-204 South Federal Avenue, Mason City...
Significance: The building exhibits the simple lines of the so-called "Commercial Style." It shows a Prairie School influence with emphasis on strong horizontal lines and exterior usage of brick and terra-cott... More
Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building No. 68, Des Moines, Polk Co...
Significance: This structure stood almost directly south of Building No. 66 and consisted of a stable barn for cavalry mounts. Completed on February 24, 1905, at a cost of $14,843.10, the building rested on a ... More
Upper Paris Bridge, Spanning Wapsipinicon River at Sutton Road, Paris,...
Significance: This Whipple through truss is structurally significant wagon crossing and a rare example of a double-intersection Pratt truss with the rare use of wrought iron components along with its truss conf... More
Woodbury County Courthouse, Seventh & Douglas Streets, Sioux City, Woo...
Significance: An important monument to early modern architecture, it is one of the largest Prairie Style buildings ever erected and the only large civic structure in that style in the U.S. Survey number: HABS ... More
Woodbury County Courthouse, Seventh & Douglas Streets, Sioux City, Woo...
Significance: An important monument to early modern architecture, it is one of the largest Prairie Style buildings ever erected and the only large civic structure in that style in the U.S. Survey number: HABS ... More
Workingmen's Houses, John Coyne House, 357 Southern Avenue, Dubuque, D...
Significance: Built in 1881, John Coyne's house fit well within the mainstream of modest residential construction then occurring in the working class neighborhood along Southern Avenue. The house is a well-pro... More
Workingmen's Houses, John Coyne House, 357 Southern Avenue, Dubuque, D...
Significance: Built in 1881, John Coyne's house fit well within the mainstream of modest residential construction then occurring in the working class neighborhood along Southern Avenue. The house is a well-pro... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Klauer Manufacturing Company Factor...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Henry L. Russell House, Route 6, West Grove Township, Bloomfield, Davi...
Significance: The Henry L. Russell House is one of a handful of octagon houses remaining in Iowa. Built in 1859 of brick manufactured at the site, the house was Russell's adaptation of octagon forms promoted d... More
Covered Bridge, Carlisle, Warren County, IA
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS IA-30-2 Building/structure dates: 1882 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after. 1965- before. 1969 Subsequent Work
Workingmen's Houses, 329 South Locust Street, Dubuque, Dubuque County,...
Significance: Similar in scale and configuration to our other nearby structures, this house contributes to the architectural feeling and association of historic workingmen's dwellings built along Southern Avenu... More
MacArthur Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River on Highway 34 between IA ...
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MacArthur Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River on Highway 34 between IA ...
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MacArthur Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River on Highway 34 between IA ...
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Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Carr, Ryder & Adams Company Factory...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Carr, Ryder & Adams Company Factory...
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Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Dubuque Oat Meal Mill Powerhouse, S...
Significance: Founded by some of Dubuque's pre-eminent early manufacturers, the Dubuque Oat Meal Mill constituted a small-scale component of the city's burgeoning flour milling industry. Its relatively short l... More
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Iowa Hospital for the Insane, State Route 248, Independence, Buchanan ...
Significance: The building was the second state mental hospital built in Iowa, and it followed functional design criteria essentially the same as those used at the first one, the construction of which had been ... More
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[Sioux City, Iowa], gelatin silver print
J158761 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Drey Globe Novelty Co.; July 28, 1911. Title derived from copyright deposit records.
Iowa Institution for the Education of the Blind, Vinton, Benton County...
Significance: After the University of Iowa, the Iowa institution for the Education of the Blind is the oldest state educational institution in Iowa. Its main building is the oldest of those of any state "chari... More
Iowa Institution for the Education of the Blind, Vinton, Benton County...
Significance: After the University of Iowa, the Iowa institution for the Education of the Blind is the oldest state educational institution in Iowa. Its main building is the oldest of those of any state "chari... More
Mathais Hamm House, 2241 Lincoln Avenue, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA
Survey number: HABS IA-73 Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Bowman & Haley Garage, 450 Central ...
Significance: Though built late in the construction milieu of Dubuque's industrial district and subsequently altered, this single-story building typifies the architecture and construction of the brick-clad comm... More
Nebraska City Bridge, Spanning Missouri River near Highway 2 between N...
Report also released under the alternate title, "Behemoths: The Great River Bridges of George S. Morison" Significance: With his long-span railroad bridges over the navigable Midwestern rivers, civil engineer G... More
Nebraska City Bridge, Spanning Missouri River near Highway 2 between N...
Report also released under the alternate title, "Behemoths: The Great River Bridges of George S. Morison" Significance: With his long-span railroad bridges over the navigable Midwestern rivers, civil engineer G... More
Nebraska City Bridge, Spanning Missouri River near Highway 2 between N...
Report also released under the alternate title, "Behemoths: The Great River Bridges of George S. Morison" Significance: With his long-span railroad bridges over the navigable Midwestern rivers, civil engineer G... More
Nebraska City Bridge, Spanning Missouri River near Highway 2 between N...
Report also released under the alternate title, "Behemoths: The Great River Bridges of George S. Morison" Significance: With his long-span railroad bridges over the navigable Midwestern rivers, civil engineer G... More
Nebraska City Bridge, Spanning Missouri River near Highway 2 between N...
Report also released under the alternate title, "Behemoths: The Great River Bridges of George S. Morison" Significance: With his long-span railroad bridges over the navigable Midwestern rivers, civil engineer G... More
86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-...
Significance: Built as part of the earliest construction on America's interstate highway system, the 86th Street Overpass represents a formative exercise in welded aluminum construction. It was designed by not... More
86th Street Overpass, Spanning Interstate 35 & 80 at Northwest Eighty-...
Significance: Built as part of the earliest construction on America's interstate highway system, the 86th Street Overpass represents a formative exercise in welded aluminum construction. It was designed by not... More
W. F. Moershal House, State Route 220, Amana, Iowa County, IA
Significance: This dwelling lies within the boundaries of the Amana Colonies, a settlement in the 1850s and 60s of German Pietists, the Community of True Inspiration. Amana Villages were America's most success... More
Quaker Meetinghouse, Downey Street, Wapsinono Creek Vicinity, West Bra...
Survey number: HABS IA-25
Quaker Meetinghouse, Downey Street, Wapsinono Creek Vicinity, West Bra...
Survey number: HABS IA-25 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Quaker Meetinghouse, Downey Street, Wapsinono Creek Vicinity, West Bra...
Survey number: HABS IA-25
Shot Tower, Commercial & East Fourth Streets, Dubuque, Dubuque County,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6 Survey number: HABS IA-30-8
Shot Tower, Commercial & East Fourth Streets, Dubuque, Dubuque County,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6 Survey number: HABS IA-30-8
Middle Creek Bridge, Spanning Middle Creek at Ventura Road, Rose Hill,...
Significance: The Middle Creek Bridge, a 4-panel Pratt pony truss, is one of only four bridges remaining built by Seevers Manufacturing Company, based in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The use of steel pipe for the upper ch... More
Middle Creek Bridge, Spanning Middle Creek at Ventura Road, Rose Hill,...
Significance: The Middle Creek Bridge, a 4-panel Pratt pony truss, is one of only four bridges remaining built by Seevers Manufacturing Company, based in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The use of steel pipe for the upper ch... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturin Com...
Significance: The Farley and Loetscher Manufacturing Company Factory I is historically significant in its association with one of Dubuque's largest manufacturing firms. Architecturally, the building is a well ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturin Com...
Significance: The Farley and Loetscher Manufacturing Company Factory I is historically significant in its association with one of Dubuque's largest manufacturing firms. Architecturally, the building is a well ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturin Com...
Significance: The Farley and Loetscher Manufacturing Company Factory I is historically significant in its association with one of Dubuque's largest manufacturing firms. Architecturally, the building is a well ... More
H. A. Kling Residence, Monroe, Jasper County, IA
Survey number: HABS IA-30-33
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Bush, Robison & Company Warehouse, ...
Significance: Consisting of Bush, John H. Robison and Edward L. Reynoldson, Bush, Robison and Company were early Dubuque dealers in grain, seed and wool. Edward Reynoldson had started the business in 1863 and ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, American House Hotel, 400-414 Centr...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Waverly Junction Bridge, Spanning Shell Rock River at Country Road, Wa...
Significance: Fabricated and erected in 1911, the Waverly Junction Bridge (called locally Dix's Bridge) ranks among Iowa's earliest rigid-connected highway trusses. The structure's concrete-filled steel cylind... More
Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building Nos. 63-64, Des Moines, Pol...
Significance: This structure stands to the west of the preceding building, along Gruber Street and fronting the south side of the Fort Des Moines parade ground. Built according to the Quartermaster General's P... More
Little Brown Church in the Vale, State Route 346, Nashua, Chickasaw Co...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 12, Upper Mis...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
George M. Schmidt Block, 301-303 West Second Street, Davenport, Scott ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, McFadden Coffee & Spice Company, Fa...
Significance: James and Edward McFadden formed the McFadden Brothers Grocery and Provisions Store in 1884 on the southwest corner of Fifth and Main streets. Two years later, in August 1886, they dissolved the ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, McFadden Coffee & Spice Company, Fa...
Significance: James and Edward McFadden formed the McFadden Brothers Grocery and Provisions Store in 1884 on the southwest corner of Fifth and Main streets. Two years later, in August 1886, they dissolved the ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, McFadden Coffee & Spice Company, Fa...
Significance: James and Edward McFadden formed the McFadden Brothers Grocery and Provisions Store in 1884 on the southwest corner of Fifth and Main streets. Two years later, in August 1886, they dissolved the ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, McFadden Coffee & Spice Company, Fa...
Significance: James and Edward McFadden formed the McFadden Brothers Grocery and Provisions Store in 1884 on the southwest corner of Fifth and Main streets. Two years later, in August 1886, they dissolved the ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, McFadden Coffee & Spice Company, Fa...
Significance: James and Edward McFadden formed the McFadden Brothers Grocery and Provisions Store in 1884 on the southwest corner of Fifth and Main streets. Two years later, in August 1886, they dissolved the ... More
Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building No. 58, Des Moines, Polk Co...
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Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building No. 81, Des Moines, Polk Co...
Significance: This stable barn, finished on January 23, 1904, conformed with plan 139 in the Quartermaster General's Office and was erected at a cost of $16,015.71. Fronting on Thayer Street, the structure was... More
City Fire Department Headquarters, 19 First Street Southwest, Mason Ci...
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City Fire Department Headquarters, 19 First Street Southwest, Mason Ci...
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City Fire Department Headquarters, 19 First Street Southwest, Mason Ci...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Fremont Mill Bridge, Central Park (moved from Monticello, Jones County...
Significance: The Fremont Mill Bridge was built during the heyday of the use of bowstring arch-trusses. In the 1860s and 1870s bowstring arch-trusses were used extensively because of their great structural eff... More
Fremont Mill Bridge, Central Park (moved from Monticello, Jones County...
Significance: The Fremont Mill Bridge was built during the heyday of the use of bowstring arch-trusses. In the 1860s and 1870s bowstring arch-trusses were used extensively because of their great structural eff... More
Alden Bridge, Spanning Iowa River at Main Street, Alden, Hardin County...
Significance: Alden Bridge was an early and important project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Iowa. Constructed in concrete using rigid frame technology, it is a prototype of 1930s bridges, popul... More
Workingmen's Houses, William Coughlin House, 860 Dodge Street, Dubuque...
Significance: With its symmetrical three-bay facade, frame construction, corner stair floor plan and gable ended roof configuration, the William Coughlin House is a representative and well-preserved example of ... More
Workingmen's Houses, Ann Walsh House, 642 Dodge Street, Dubuque, Dubuq...
Significance: Like most of the adjacent structures on Dodge Street, the Ann Walsh House is a gable end box - one of the most common workingmen's house types of the period. But this building differs from the ot... More
Cedar River Bridge, Spanning Cedar River, Floyd, Floyd County, IA
Significance: Designed by the Iowa State Highway Commission. The continuous steel girder of three spans maintains its original Art Deco railing. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N251... More
Cedar River Bridge, Spanning Cedar River, Floyd, Floyd County, IA
Significance: Designed by the Iowa State Highway Commission. The continuous steel girder of three spans maintains its original Art Deco railing. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N251... More
Odd Fellows Hall, Front & Vine Streets, Mineral Point, Iowa County, WI
Survey number: HABS WI-237 Building/structure dates: 1835 Initial Construction
Odd Fellows Hall, Front & Vine Streets, Mineral Point, Iowa County, WI
Survey number: HABS WI-237 Building/structure dates: 1835 Initial Construction
Dietzenbach Bottom Bridge, Spanning Turkey River at Pheasant Road, Sai...
Significance: The Dietzenbach Bottom Bridge is an excellent example of the now rare late nineteenth century pin-connected, wrought-iron Warren truss. It seems to be the work of the creative and well-known engi... More
Eveland Bridge, Spanning Des Moines River at 285th Street, Oskaloosa, ...
Significance: The Eveland Bridge is a rare example of a multiple-span Whipple truss bridge. A less common variation on the Pratt truss, the Whipple truss was seldom used for wagon trusses in Iowa, and only sev... More
Cornish Miner's House No. 1, 114 Shakerag Alley, Mineral Point, Iowa C...
Survey number: HABS WI-28-17 Building/structure dates: ca. 1828 Initial Construction
Arthur L. Rule House, 11 South Rock Glen, Mason City, Cerro Gordo Coun...
Significance: Integral part of Mason City's first planned community development, which grew to represent the largest cluster of Prairie Style houses in America. Primary planner and developer of the area, known... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Illinois Central Railroad Freight ...
Significance: As the oldest of three such freight warehouses built in the railyards near Dubuque's ice harbor, the Illinois Central depot is historically significant for its association with early Dubuque rail ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Illinois Central Railroad Freight ...
Significance: As the oldest of three such freight warehouses built in the railyards near Dubuque's ice harbor, the Illinois Central depot is historically significant for its association with early Dubuque rail ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Kassler Motor Company Showroom, Fif...
Significance: The Kassler Motor Company Showroom typifies the brick-clad automobile dealerships built in Dubuque's southside commercial/industrial district, both historically and architecturally. Survey number... More
Workingmen's Houses, Ann McQueen House, 650 Dodge Street, Dubuque, Dub...
Significance: With its slightly asymmetrical three-bay facade, frame construction, corner stair floor plan and gable ended roof configuration, the Ann McQueen House is a representative example of the modest wor... More
Workingmen's Houses, Ann McQueen House, 650 Dodge Street, Dubuque, Dub...
Significance: With its slightly asymmetrical three-bay facade, frame construction, corner stair floor plan and gable ended roof configuration, the Ann McQueen House is a representative example of the modest wor... More
Workingmen's Houses, Ann McQueen House, 650 Dodge Street, Dubuque, Dub...
Significance: With its slightly asymmetrical three-bay facade, frame construction, corner stair floor plan and gable ended roof configuration, the Ann McQueen House is a representative example of the modest wor... More
Rath Packing Company, Hog Dressing Building, Sycamore Street between E...
Survey number: HAER IA-41-H Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Constables the Des Moines Searchers and Advance Guard of the Fighting ...
Photograph shows group portrait of constables: Thomas Chapman, John Marian, Frank Blyler, Joseph Mercer, Frank Pierce, O.C. West, George Hanson, G.B. Hamilton, George Cleggett and G.W. Potts [posed with bloodho... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Dubuque Seed Company Warehouse, 169...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Dubuque Seed Company Warehouse, 169...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Dubuque Seed Company Warehouse, 169...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Central College, Temporary Quarters, 1107 West Washington Street, Pell...
Significance: This structure was the temporary quarters for the Iowa Central University's (now Central College) first classes between 1845 and 1856. Survey number: HABS IA-96 Building/structure dates: after 1... More
Clegg Home, Valley Junction, Polk County, IA
Survey number: HABS IA-30-7 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Workingmen's Houses, Adam P. Berg House, 770 Dodge Street, Dubuque, Du...
Significance: The Adam Berg House is one of the last houses built along this section of Dodge Street at the end of the 19th century. Though scaled similarly to other nearby houses, this building is unusual in ... More
Workingmen's Houses, Adam P. Berg House, 770 Dodge Street, Dubuque, Du...
Significance: The Adam Berg House is one of the last houses built along this section of Dodge Street at the end of the 19th century. Though scaled similarly to other nearby houses, this building is unusual in ... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, 76 Main Street, Dubuque, Dubuque Co...
Significance: Though altered extensively, this modest single-story building is significant as a contributing element in Dubuque's southside commercial district. Survey number: HABS IA-160-BD Building/structur... More
Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Carr, Ryder & Adams Company, Wareho...
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P. J. Almquist House, 16 Second Street Northwest, Waukon, Allamakee Co...
Significance: Architecturally, this structure is one of a handful of known extant structures that combine Scandinavian building traditions with Greek Revival detailing. Constructed by P.J. Almquist, a Swedish ... More